Work Location - Chennai

Work Hours - 6:30pm IST to 3:30am IST (During Day light 7:30PM IST to 4:30am IST)

Work Mode - Hybrid (3 days from the office/week)

Experience - Required: 6–9 Years

Skills - Experience in accounting, Hands on experience in creating Revenue reports for P&L;, Excellent Communication skills (both verbal and Nonverbal), Budget project management Experience is preferrable, Reporting Tools: Advance Excel, Powerbait, Power Query etc.

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Role Overview:

Finance - Lead (Client Finance). The position will be part of the agency’s Client Finance team in NYC and is responsible for supporting the team on month-end close activities, forecasting verification, billing setups, compliance reporting, utilization tracking, and related financial processes. The ideal candidate will report to the Finance Manager (or relevant lead) and would be detail-oriented, highly organized, communicate effectively, and can work in a fast-paced workplace.

- Prepare and post recurring month-end journal entries (JEs)
- Prepare Media Spend Audit vs OMG reports
- Set up billing schedules for Business Planning Managers (BPMs)
- Verify forecast billings accuracy placed by Budget Project Managers in TM1
- Send out Quarterly Media Spend reports to Client Business Leads
- Support Finance Directors with Audit
- Variance analysis of billings forecast in TM1 vs Client teams’ submission




- Refresh and compile the monthly C&F; while coordinating with Finance Directors on any variances
- Create project codes for Time and Non-billable projects
- Prepare hours journals to correct hours in timekeeping system
- Process project transfers related to billable and non-billable jobs
- Maintenance of the Revenue and Billings SQL reports
- Support Utilization tracking:
- Compare contracted hours vs. logged hours
- Investigate and track down missing time entries

- Handle ad-hoc OMG compliance reporting requests

Qualifications

- Finance, Accounting, or other relevant degree
- Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure
- Highly detail oriented, good organizational skills and deadline oriented.
- Self-starter and independent/pro-active thinker who has the desire to work in a fast-paced organization.
- Ability to work autonomously at times.
- Strong knowledge of Excel (including x-lookups and pivot tables) and work with large volumes of data (background in Power Query preferred).

Desirable Skills & Attributes:

- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Strong technical accounting and analytical skills
- Outgoing personality and ability to establish rapport and work efficiently with all team members serving various functions at various levels.
- Familiarity with financial systems such as TM1, or similar planning/reporting tools.
- Experience in media/advertising finance, client billing, or utilization tracking is a plus.

📌 Client Finance Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Omnicom
📍 Chennai